Tom Hollingsworth and guest host Jay Cuthrell bring the latest tech news straight to you in this week’s Tech Field Day News Rundown!

They kick things off with Obsidian Security’s new SaaS updates, giving tighter control over third-party integrations and reducing breach risks. Fidelity’s legal se...

A critical ServiceNow vulnerability shows how quickly deployed AI features can turn into major security risks. By rushing agentic AI into production without proper authentication, authorization, and safeguards, organizations are creating new attack paths that bypass traditional defenses. Experts ...

For 2026, AI is no longer a trend—it’s becoming foundational infrastructure, transforming how software is built, how cloud and data centers operate, how security is enforced, and how businesses compete. Predict 2026, hosted by Futurum, explores these shifts with sessions on agentic AI, accelerate...

At CES 2026, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang unveiled a sweeping vision for the future of AI, led by the Rubin platform—the company’s first extreme-codesigned, six-chip AI architecture designed to dramatically reduce AI computing costs while scaling performance across data centers, enterprises, and devic...

2025 was a year of seismic shifts in tech, as AI surged into a critical growth phase with massive investments, partnerships, and global trade battles over chips. Intel and HPE restructured for the AI era, quantum computing made strides with Microsoft, Google, and Cisco advancing real-world applic...

Micron is leaving the consumer memory market, including its Crucial brand, to focus on high-bandwidth memory (HBM) for AI data centers. The company will continue selling consumer products until February 2026. The move comes amid a global chip shortage, and HBM sales are growing fast, making AI-fo...

Nokia is investing $4 billion to expand U.S. AI-ready network infrastructure, focusing primarily on Bell Labs and additional facilities in New Jersey, Texas, and Pennsylvania to strengthen connectivity, national security, and its NVIDIA partnership. At the same time, AWS is committing $50 billion...

Nokia is investing $4 billion to expand U.S. AI-ready network infrastructure, focusing primarily on Bell Labs and additional facilities in New Jersey, Texas, and Pennsylvania to strengthen connectivity, national security, and its NVIDIA partnership. At the same time, AWS is committing $50 billion...

Web infrastructure provider Cloudflare experienced a global disruption that caused widespread “Error 500” messages and took down major platforms including X and ChatGPT. The outage, triggered by a sudden spike in unusual network traffic, impacted thousands of websites early Tuesday and highlighte...

At KubeCon 2025, the CNCF launched the Certified Kubernetes AI Conformance Program to standardize AI and ML workloads on Kubernetes, ensuring portability across hybrid and sovereign clouds and preventing platform lock-in. Supported by companies like Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Broadcom, and Red Ha...

Commvault’s Data Rooms let data science teams quickly access and prepare backup data, while a new AI-powered interface simplifies querying and managing it. Using data already classified during backup, teams can reduce manual prep, apply role-based access and sensitivity tags, and share data secur...

The U.S. government is considering taking stakes in quantum computing startups like Atom Computing, D-Wave, IonQ, Rigetti, and Quantum Computing in exchange for federal funding of at least $10 million each. Managed through the Commerce Department’s CHIPS program, the plan aims to support U.S. qua...

AWS is restoring operations after a massive outage disrupted internet access worldwide, affecting major platforms like Snapchat, Facebook, Fortnite, Delta, Coinbase, and several banks. The issue stemmed from a DNS failure that temporarily prevented access to data stored in AWS systems, causing wi...

At NetApp INSIGHT 2025, the company announced several major innovations, including the new AI Data Engine, which pre-processes ONTAP data for use with LLMs and AI agents. This platform features advanced metadata management, data synchronization, data governance, and data curation, along with a bu...

Microsoft stopped a phishing attack that used AI-generated code to hide its malicious payload and trick victims. Hackers sent fake file-sharing emails from a compromised account, with an SVG file disguised as a PDF that contained hidden JavaScript. Microsoft’s Security Copilot flagged the code as...

NVIDIA is doubling down on AI dominance with massive investments across cloud, chips, and infrastructure. It struck a $6.3B deal with CoreWeave to secure long-term GPU demand, is investing $5B in Intel to co-develop custom CPUs and PC chips that pair Intel processors with NVIDIA GPUs, and is comm...

A U.S. judge ruled Google does not have to sell its Chrome browser in an antitrust case. Instead, Google must end some exclusive deals and share parts of its search data with rivals. The decision kept Google’s core business intact and boosted Alphabet’s stock. This and more on the Tech Field Day ...

New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit against Zelle’s parent company, Early Warning Services, accusing it of failing to protect customers from widespread fraud that cost victims over a billion dollars between 2017 and 2023. The suit claims EWS ignored known vulnerabilities a...

Mary Ann Davidson, Oracle’s long-time Chief Security Officer, is leaving after nearly 40 years with the company. Known for both her leadership and controversial stances on security issues, her departure comes amid layoffs and a shift at Oracle toward AI-focused strategies. While not directly link...

SoftBank is investing $2 billion in Intel by buying shares at $23 each, strengthening their partnership to advance U.S. semiconductor technology. Both companies said the deal supports innovation, AI growth, and next-generation digital infrastructure, with Intel playing a key role in U.S. manufact...

Microsoft is making GitHub part of its CoreAI team after GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke announced he’s leaving to start a new company. Dohmke will stay until the end of 2025 to help with the transition. Instead of hiring a new CEO, GitHub’s leaders will now report directly to Microsoft’s AI group, led ...

President Trump’s new tariffs on dozens of countries are shaking global markets and hurting major companies like Apple, Amazon, and carmakers by raising costs and causing delays. Apple expects to pay $1.1 billion in tariffs this quarter, and Ford estimates $2 billion for the year. The tariffs aim...

Intel is cutting about 24,000 jobs this year—roughly a quarter of its core workforce—as part of a major restructuring led by new CEO Lip-Bu Tan. The company is canceling projects in Germany and Poland, downsizing operations in Costa Rica, and slowing construction in Ohio. Intel says it overbuilt ...

Hackers have used a serious, previously unknown flaw in Microsoft’s SharePoint server software to launch a major global cyberattack. The attack has hit U.S. government agencies, universities, energy companies, and more, but only affects on-site servers—not cloud services. Stolen data and encrypti...